Burns hopes you will take these short posts as springboards for your own questioning about the observable universe.

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For those, like me, writing science fiction, it’s good to know that science itself is but a story (one that is quite elaborate and, for the most part, able to achieve repeatable and accurate forecasts). Scientific cosmology deals with what science has learned about the origin and growth of the universe. Here, I’ll attempt to form my own cosmology, or story, about all the things today’s science might not explain.

I must apologize beforehand. I am a child of science and a scientific generalist. In some cases, I use my published experiment about a vibrating droplet, its growth and change, to help construct my own personal cosmology.

I hope, after you read some of my posts, you’ll ask questions, so we both develop the capacity to mine our imaginations to construct our own cosmologic stories (perhaps, we’ll find ways of effortlessly creating backgrounds for our own fictional novels).